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We utilize panel data on over 65 countries from the Economist Intelligence Unit about its Democracy level, measured by … between Democracy and stock market performance. Our results are robust clustering for countries’ characteristics. We … conjecture that the larger the space of the democracy, the greater the scrutiny and unrewarded excessive accountabilities on the …
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This study tests whether income inequality creates greater volatility in stock prices across a broad sample of countries. Contrary to the idea that inequality creates social and political uncertainty that is reflected in higher volatility, we instead find a negative association between...
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Our simple model features agents heterogeneous in skill and risk aversion, incomplete financial markets, and redistributive taxation. In equilibrium, agents become entrepreneurs if their skill is sufficiently high or risk aversion sufficiently low. Under heavier taxation, entrepreneurs are more...
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In this paper I study the asset pricing implication of cross-country differences in income inequality. Using panel regression with year fixed effects, I document a strong negative relationship between cross-country stock market levels (as measured by each market's P/D ratio) and cross-country...
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